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Originally Posted by klaze
You are right and wrong.. Most of the slices on that page can benefit from being jpegs.
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Hehe, sorry man - that would just be a mistake. A very common mistake designers have been making for years. If it wasn't sliced up, then it should be a jpg - which is how it should have been done, not sliced. The way it is, it's done correctly.
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Originally Posted by klaze
I dunno what kind of shitty monitor you are on but the ENTIRE site is made up of gradients and colors blending together.... because they used GIFS for everything I see a ton of dithering and banding.
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I have Gateway HDMI Monitors, so chances are really good - it's not my monitors. What you are seeing is a result of having your monitors set to bright, making all your colors wrong.
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Originally Posted by klaze
The designer doesn't even understand how to make optimized GIFs look GOOD.. Lookit the black on the girls underwear it is spotted with color..
Lookit Twisty's Animated banners.. That is a designer that knows how to work Gif optimization..
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Look at the file sizes.. huge difference. And the animation isn't going to stop Webmasters from signing up. Personally, I only allow all animations to loop only once in my browser, so I don't have to see other persons trash more than once.
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Originally Posted by klaze
In REALITY the designer should go thru each slice and play with the quality settings till he finds the perfect medium between quality and file size..
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No designer should adjust the quality of every image, that very minor factor will not improve ratios. I would fire any staff/designer I ever heard doing this, burning up my time on unimportant bs - it's why so many designers fail.
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Originally Posted by klaze
GIF and PNG are COMPLETELY different.
GIF is *NOT* high quality 24bit PNG is. GIF is only 256 colors..
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Of course they are different, but so is jpg and gif, and we still use them mixed together. Other than the flesh tone pictures, everything on that site is less than 256 colors - and the few that are - can be cleaned up with a PNG - loaded via css, reducing the total amount of image slices needed.
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Originally Posted by klaze
Everything i've done in flash I use PNGs exported at highest quality. That's why my shit looks soo sharp. I've never had a problem with my stuff taking too long to load..
I will use the built in text editors to do text.. Even tho TEXT png layers are usually only a few KB it just makes editing easier..
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Things don't seem slow to you, but to millions of others that don't have nice high speed, don't get fast loading when you use PNG's. Flash is a vector program that can be scripted, for a reason. It's unfortunate for flash that it can be used in other ways.
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Originally Posted by klaze
Hey man i'm a designer it's my job to notice this stuff.. And it's the fact I notice and don't let stuff like that slip that keeps me UP..
You guys can just keep yer heads stuck up yer ass.. I really don't give a flying fuck.. it's not my site..
And it's better if yer stuff looks low quality cause my stuff will just stand out that much more..
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You should notice things like that, but if you have a problem like that, on a Webmaster site, spending hours trying to adjust parts of a design to correct for it, just isn't logical - when it will make no factor in Webmaster signups.
A low quality design means nothing at all, as long as the site is usable - the design makes no factor.
No worries though, we will always have people that think the next pretty design will make them rich.